68th St Quotes & Sayings

We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money. — Ville Valo

It's one fucking illusion in this fucking delusion... you don't want to be in my dream, do ya? — Deyth Banger

Maybe that was where the trouble started? People tried to tame themselves within walls and windows, and they find knickknacks to make the walls and windows their own, when maybe what they needed was to be free of those constraints. Byron asked himself again how such a person could call herself a mistake. — Rachel Joyce

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time. — Steve Vai

Figuring out what to do with your life is only Half of the equation, the more important half is, whom you are doing it with — Sel

If we take back the labor unions, the legitimate businesses, eventually they become just another street gang. Spiritually, psychologically, they've always been just a street gang. — Rudy Giuliani

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently. — Maya Angelou

Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We've been lucky. The autumn happened to be dry and warm. We managed to dig the potatoes before the rain and cold set in. Minus what we owed and returned to the Mikulitsyns, we have up to twenty sacks, and it is all in the main bin of the cellar, covered above, over the floor, with straw and old, torn blankets. Down there, under the floor, we also put two barrels of Tonya's salted cucumbers and another two of cabbage she has pickled. The fresh cabbage is hung from the crossbeams, head to head, tied in pairs. The supply of carrots is buried in dry sand. As is a sufficient amount of harvested black radishes, beets, and turnips, and upstairs in the house there is a quantity of peas and beans. The firewood stored up in the shed will last till spring. — Boris Pasternak

Becoming a real researcher has been the ultimate humbling experience for me. Nature is the examiner from hell; if you find new things at all, you always find them the hard way, with sweat and tears. Only then do you notice that there was a really easy way to find them. But this insight rarely arrives before you have been utterly humiliated and reduced to despair. — Joao Magueijo